I am confident that this exists in the world; it's easy to provide one or two famous examples. But, yeah, it's really not my personal experience, either.

You can't blockade me! I blockade you!!!!

This garbage will inevitably be reversed in a few years. But this has serious costs; it adds major delays and uncertainty to health research. Worse will be if vaccine opposition becomes part of the partisan ideological divide. That may be happening, especially for younger Americans.

Eight women accused Franken of misconduct. He was surely pressed to resign, but it's not possible for him to be forced to resign. He chose to do that rather than go through institutional process. There are plenty of examples of members of congress who have ignored pressure and gone through process.

He said, "we will bury you," while clapping his hands above his head emphatically. This phrase was a reference to widespread discussions in Russian thought about which system (or which life forms in biology etc) would outlive others. It wasn't a threat a destruction but rather a boast of survival.

Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children.

Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future.

If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it.

So must you.

I don't know if we can stop the terrible things that are happening.

But I do know that we can commit ourselves as individuals and communities and societies to seek justice for as long as it takes.

The big No Kings protests get the news, but there's constant everyday resistance on the ground. Protests at ICE detention centers, resistance to street and neighborhood deportation efforts, etc. This stuff has infuriated the regime and the migra, but it hasn't produced anything like regime change.

The next myth is that uninformed non-voters *should* be informed about politics and would find the information valuable if we could reach them in the right way. Why? They have a factual, accurate perception that their individual participation won't change outcomes, and they don't enjoy politics.

Shaving margins off Republican safe districts to flip Democratic districts makes even some safe R districts vulnerable during wave elections, see?

Populism is sort of powerful, and just gets people at a deep level, maybe?

The other common explanation is to point to information diets and polarization. Which works better when we aren't dealing with everyday problems like a war suddenly spiking the price of energy. (I know we haven't seen this play into approval ratings really yet, but we will see...)

The standard polisci explanation is partisanship, which makes sense but also sort of isn't an explanation. At this point, being a Republican entails liking Trump, so saying people like Trump because they're Republicans is pretty circular.

One of the huge mysteries in life: why is Trump's approval rating *so high*? I mean, it's obviously low in comparative and historical terms. But in absolute terms, there are millions of people who look at everything that's going on and say, "Great!"

It is clear now that many ordinary Germans were offended by the brutalities carried out under their windows. Yet their widespread distaste was transitory and without lasting effect. Why were there no lawsuits or judicial or administrative enquiries, for example? If we can understand the failure of the judicial system, or of religious or civilian authorities, or of citizen opposition to put any brakes on Hitler in November 1938, we have begun to understand the wider circles of individual and institutional acquiescence within which a militant minority was able to free itself sufficiently from constraints to be able to carry out genocide in a heretofore sophisticated and civilized country.

From Paxton's "Anatomy of Fascism":

What Musk puts forward isn't just a misreading of Tolkien; it's a worldview that the narrative actively considers and rejects. This is the perspective of Boromir, and this view leads to Boromir's corruption and fall.

All the pundits and news outlets that bought into these schmucks’ transparent nonsense about antisemitism at the Ivies should reflect for a few minutes on how badly and easily they were played.

Yep.

It's another version of the same puzzle. Why can Trump embrace the Tea Party and QAnon but Dems can't say that genocide is bad? Idk.

They aren't really talking about candidates, but rather about social movements. They think the BLM, Gaza, Me Too, and LGBTQ movements harmed the party.

I'm sure it's good and valid that sports leagues in the U.S. have partnered in depth with gambling operations, and it's probably just growing pains that a major U.S. league is currently seeing its integrity called into question because of infiltration by the literal mafia.

These Dallas Residents Are on the Front Lines of Trump’s War Against “Antifa” If convicted, people who showed up to a protest could face “decades of prison time,” the National Lawyers Guild says.

"According to the government’s case, the defendants’ all-black clothing, handheld radios, and use of encrypted messaging apps serve as evidence, not of their being security-conscious protesters in a period of escalating political repression but, rather, of being members of a 'militant enterprise'."

I think this ought to be pretty uncontroversial. People comfortable connecting themselves with Naziism can certainly grow and change, but they don't need to be senators. Leadership isn't for everyone, right?

Also it doesn’t matter.

Nazi tattoo = NOT THE CANDIDATE FOR US SENATE

WTF Murphy.

This account is pro-Nazi Buddhism content. Weird stuff, we're seeing some things these days. Thanks, Platner, I guess.

LLMs are optimized in part to increase user engagement. I think that's the whole story here.

Interesting that Jacobin regards antifascism as "wokeness." I do not understand the apparently magnetic appeal of Nazi dudes for some segments of society. We need deep change in our path as a community.

End up with a new Fetterman. Definitely not a good path.

In my experience, it's very easy to misunderstand things on social media, especially if they come from a different perspective than one is used to. It's low-context communication, which has issues. But, yeah, maybe a lot of us should stop and reflect before committing ourselves to wrath...